Global Steering Committee
Global Steering Committee
Global Steering Committee
Central Banking Meetings benefit from the support and guidance of a global panel of experts.
Reserve Management Committee
Carl Mitchell
Head of investment analysis division
Sveriges Riksbank
Bernard Altschuler
Head of central bank coverage
HSBC
Dwityapoetra S. Besar
Executive director
Bank Indonesia
WORKING EXPERIENCE
▪ Executive Director, Reserve Management Department, Bank Indonesia,
▪ Chief Representative of Bank Indonesia in New York, USA. ▪ Director, Group Head of Macroprudential Research and Regulation, Bank Indonesia.
▪ Senior Economist, Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan 2004.
▪ Senior Economist, Financial Stability Division, Bank of England, London, UK 2003
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Banking & Finance, Cass Business School, University of London, London, UK MIA., International Banking and Finance, Columbia University, New York, USA
OTHER EXPERIENCE/TRAININGS
Digital Transformation – Driving Digital Strategy, Harvard Business School, Executive Education, USA, 2021. Guest Lecturer, Systemic Risk Programs, School of Management, Yale University, USA, 2019. Oxford Strategic Leadership Programme, Said Business School, University of Oxford, 2016.
Gerardo García
Director general of central banking operations
Bank of Mexico
Jan Schmidt
Executive director of risk management
Czech National Bank
Juliusz Jabłecki
Director of the financial risk management department
National Bank of Poland
Aniq Aziz
Director of the treasury operations department
State Bank of Pakistan
Michael Buckle
Senior director of foreign reserves
Bank of Jamaica
Mr. Buckle is a member of the Bank of Jamaica’s Senior Management Team, with responsibility for the investment management of the Foreign Currency Reserves of Jamaica reporting to the Bank’s Board, Management Committee and Investment Committee.
He also has responsibility for the investment management of the Central Bank’s Pension Fund optimized with an elongated investment horizon.
Previously, he was the Director of Bank of Jamaica’s Information Communication and Technology team, with specific responsibility for the alignment of the IT Governance, Business Intelligence, Web Presence and Electronic Connectivity with the regulated entities in the financial sector.
Having started his career as an IT professional at CitiBank Jamaica, he also holds a BSc. degree in Information Technology from the University of the West Indies, Jamaica and an MBA with a double major in Finance and Technology from the University of Miami.
Moseki Caster
Director of financial markets
Bank of Botswana
Raivo Vanags
Member of the board and head of market operations
Bank of Latvia
Ricardo Martinelli
Senior advisor of the reserve management department
Central Bank of Brazil
Rod Ringrow
Head of official institutions
Invesco
Solomon Kavuma
Director of financial markets
Bank of Uganda
Patricia Gulyetonda
Head, Reserves and investment management operations
Bank of Uganda
I am the Head of Reserves and Investment Management Operations at the Central Bank of Uganda since February 2022, prior to that I held several roles all revolving around the reserves management process.
My current role involves providing leadership to the portfolio management team, the global markets research as well as the external fund managers and liaison of the reserves management capacity building programs in the Bank. The role also involves giving advice to senior management and development of reserves management proposals and frameworks including; the Investment Policy and the Strategic Asset Allocation.
Prior to this role, I was a portfolio manager responsible for the BOU’s money markets portfolio, in the foreign exchange reserves for 7 years. This required management and monitoring of daily fx liquidity needs for BOU & government payments, as well as investments in the money markets instruments, proposal and implementation of Strategic Asset Allocation and Investment Policy.
In addition to portfolio management, I’m passionate about efficiency in reserves management operations. In that line, I have taken a lead role in implementing two of the BOU’s reserves management systems which involved automation of the reserves management processes for improved efficiency.
I am also involved in BOU’s sustainability efforts which embody the Bank’s ESG initiatives. I am a member of the taskforce that studied and saw through to approval the Central Bank led model of Sustainability, which is currently being implemented in the BOU.
I possess a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from Makerere University Business School, a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the East and Southern African Management Institute. I am a certified Prince 2 Project Management Practitioner and an ACI Financial Markets Association certified portfolio trader.
Tal Biber
Head of the markets division
Bank of Israel
Tal heads the Markets Division in the Markets Department at the Bank of Israel.
In this capacity, he is in charge of the front office operations of the FX Reserves Management and Domestic Market Operations at the Bank of Israel. He has been at the Bank of Israel in various positions since 1993.
The Markets Division analyses domestic and international economic and market developments for the Monetary Policy Committee. In the Covid-19 crisis, the Monetary Policy Committee established several programs in order to assist financial markets in Israel. The Markets Division transacts these programs.
In the last decade, FX Reserves Management at the Bank of Israel diversified to include equities and corporate bonds in addition to traditional government bond investments.
Tal has a MSc. in Management specializing in Finance from Imperial College, University of London and graduated from University College, University of London with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Economics. Before joining the Bank of Israel, he worked in liability management in the private sector in the United Kingdom.
José Luís Marques
Deputy head of the markets department
Bank of Portugal
Lorelie Fernandez
Officer-in-charge of financial markets
Central Bank of the Philippines